[16] Cool.
[17] [Trumpington is in Essex, a county proverbial, rightly or wrongly, for the stupidity of its inhabitants.]
[18] [Equivalent to calling him a churl. See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, pp. 315-316 and 489; and Halliwell's "Dictionary," v. Hogsnorton. But in none of the instances cited there do we find Trumpington mentioned.]
[19] See "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 286.
[20] "Popular Antiquities of Great Britain," ii. 315.
[21] Should we not read Hey-go-bet?
[22] See Hazlitt's "Popular Poetry," iii. 73-4.
[23] Post and pair.
[24] [We do not find this mentioned elsewhere. The same remark applies to aums-ace.]
[25] [Halliwell, in his "Dict." v. Pink, says:—"A game, the same as post and pair." Surely this is not so. It seems rather to be used, here at least, in the sense of gamble. But pink, after all, may signify something very different, viz., lechery.]